Microsoft buys 100 companies

Microsoft Executive Director Steve Ballmer (by the way, has long been an independent and constant newsreel for the media, regardless of the company's activities and policies), made another loud statement at the Web 2.0 Summit conference held in San Francisco. And if his last loud statement (other Mr. Ballmer seems to be unable to do) was the recognition that he did not understand social networks , then on Friday the CEO of the largest IT corporation promised to buy 20 companies worth from $ 50 million in the next 5 years Up to $ 1 billion annually. Total 100 companies and from $ 5 billion to $ 100 billion.

What kind of companies will come to Microsoft's attention, Ballmer did not specify, having regretted, apparently, the nerves of stock brokers, already tired at the end of the week. However, he noted that opensource developers may be among them. If any company makes open source software - this is not a reason for a bad mood, Microsoft may pay attention to it. Interestingly, Ballmer even invited everyone to offer him his projects by contacting him at steveb@microsoft.com .

Microsoft called the upcoming acquisitions frontman “strategically important”, which, in general, didn’t surprise anyone: rumors about the upcoming expenditures of MS, caused by her desire not to lag behind in this field from their neighbors on IT Olympus, have been around for a long time. Well, one can only hope that investment for the sake of investment is not what Ballmer means by definition “strategically important”.